Drop required usage of MyISAM tables, and drop fulltext indexes as they
are not used in the code currently anyway. Also, use a blob to store
session data so as not to waste space with UTF-8 encoding. Lastly, fix
session_id storage to use VARCHAR(255) which is required for versions
of MySQL < 5.0.3, and use ascii for the storage model for the
session_id as it will contain simple characters only.